Perhaps you could inquire via the contact information in http://www.katahdinmaine.com/images/pdf/KatahdinVG2015-WEB.pdf where they got the GIS data? There are maps of the new area on pp. 44-45, 50-51, 54-55, 76-77.
Failing that: We could georeference the map of the area at https://www.nps.gov/kaww/planyourvisit/upload/KAWW-Recreation-Map-08_2016.pdf (presumably a US Government work not subject to copyright) and select the corresponding area in the tax parcel map available from http://www.maine.gov/megis/catalog/ (which appears to have OSM-compatible usage terms: http://www.maine.gov/megis/catalog/metadata/parcels_ut.htm). I've managed to extract park boundaries from tax parcel data in New York in the recent past. I'm lookng at the tax parcels from http://www.maine.gov/megis/catalog/shps/state/parcels_uts.zip overlaid atop a roughly georeferenced version of the NPS map in QGIS right now, and except for the fact that two parcels (01-1 and 01-3.1) in the southwest corner appear to have been subdivided, the NPS map follows the tax map. There appears to be an error in the boundary between lots 01-2.21 and 01-2.2 as well, and there, since the shape appears to be similar, I'm more inclined to trust the taxing authority. (A lot of these backcountry property lines are based on ancient surveys where the errors of closure could literally be tens or even hundreds of metres, so I strongly suspect that there's an indefinite boundary in there, anyway.) Dissolving the parcel polygons, slicing off the line at the southern boundary, and adding the little missing bit by Whetstone Falls, would give us a pretty darned accurate outline. It would look like hell on the rendered map unless we also brought in the polygons for the rivers, but that would also surely be doable. I'm likely not to have time for this project for a couple of weeks, but I'll happily put it on the 'things to do' list if the legal beagles are comfortable with this approach. Kevin On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <j...@ocjtech.us> wrote: > So, if you haven't seen the announcement, yesterday President Obama > established the latest National Monument. > > https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/08/24/president- > obama-designates-national-monument-maines-north-woods > https://www.nps.gov/kaww/index.htm > > It'd be nice to get at least the boundaries into OSM, anyone have a > source for the data? I didn't see anything obvious in the NPS data > portal. > > -- > Jeff Ollie > The majestik møøse is one of the mäni interesting furry animals in Sweden. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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